California Gold Rush | The First Strike | 1
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Sam Brannon Sherman
Sherman was a young soldier stationed in northern, California during the Mexican-American war. In early 1848 Sherman transferred to a post in Monterey where he assisted the new American military governor of California. One day that spring two scruffy men showed up saying they had been sent by John Sutter with an urgent message for the governor Reluctantly Sherman let them in The bedraggled men presented several flakes of what appeared to be gold He and the governor tested the metal by beating it flat with a blunt end of a hatchet And dribbled caustic chemicals on it. They were soon convinced it was gold But having given permission for the mining now Sherman had a greater matter
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